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Word: nearly (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...though his plot were not off-kilter enough, Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 2 -> 1: A Math Made in Heaven | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...though his plot were not off-kilter enough, Medem feels the need to smother his story in coincidences and near-misses. Otto and Ana's first meeting, their parent's decision to marry, the manner in which they learn of each other's whereabouts after years of separation (Ana just happens to decide she should live in Finland and Otto just happens to take a job flying packages between Spain and the Arctic Circle)--all of these increasingly unlikely events are consciously presented as a chain of coincidences. At the same time, Otto and Ana's love is not simply...

Author: By David Kornhaber, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 2-> 1: A Math Made in Heaven | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...stands over her laundry in a wooden room in rural Tennessee. Lloyd sits in a chair near her, shivering under his blanket, devoured by a disease he is ashamed of and afraid to face. There is a perpetual tension between the two; Lloyd is sexually crippled and jealous of Mae, who has been seduced by an unbearable desire to educate herself. Indeed, at the school where she goes to learn rudimentary reading and mathematics, she has met an advanced reader named Henry, and she is falling in love...

Author: By Jerome L. Martin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Mud: The Best Plays are Hard to Find | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

...said that in the event of a move, one potential site could be Hemenway Gymnasium near Harvard Law School...

Author: By Adam A. Sofen, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Radcliffe May Take Over Byerly, Agassiz Halls | 4/30/1999 | See Source »

According to Rudenstine, the new Institute'sclosest parallel will be the Princeton Institutefor Advanced Study, an independent researchorganization located near Princeton University,but not officially affiliated with the school...

Author: By Kiratiana E. Freelon, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Panelists Discuss Gay, Civil Rights at KSG | 4/29/1999 | See Source »

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